ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Announces Results from a Comprehensive Screening of 27 Proprietary Anti-SARS-CoV-2 Therapeutic Antibodies

IMMUNOPRECISE ANTIBODIES LTD. (the "Company" or "IPA") (NASDAQ: IPA) (TSX VENTURE: IPA) a leader in full-service, therapeutic antibody discovery and development, today has confirmed the results of an additional PolyTope™ antibody interaction analysis against SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variants of concern.

Twenty-seven extensively characterized, proprietary, lead candidate antibodies have been generated and analyzed by ImmunoPrecise in its preclinical studies to reveal full interaction profiles against seventeen different SARS-CoV-2 variants. Results of the screening also indicate that identified antibodies retain the ability to bind to emerging SARS-CoV-2 variants including U.K. (B.1.1.7 lineage), S. African (B.1.351 lineage) and Brazilian (P.1 lineage) strains.

Jennifer Bath, President and CEO commented, "While single and dual antibody therapies enabled a faster path to the clinic initially; these therapies do not directly address long-term protection against the virus’s inevitable escape via its prolific ability to mutate — which we believe will ultimately be necessary to eradicate the threat of SARS-CoV-2 to human health.”

Researchers studying SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, have indicated that global variants are more transmissible than the original strain. As such, there has been an increasing focus in multi-antibody cocktail therapies. Currently, there are no multi-antibody therapies containing three or more antibodies in human clinical trials, despite the fact that a multi-antibody approach is widely believed to be the most promising path to containing SARS-CoV-2 variants.

The PolyTope platform developed by the Company has produced a diverse library of therapeutic antibody preclinical candidates which, when combined into a multi-antibody cocktail therapy, may assist in reaching the goal to effectively prevent mutational escape, unlock synergistic effects and improve efficacy and reduction in dosage requirements of future potential treatments.

About IPA’s PolyTope Platform.

IPA’s SARS-CoV-2 PolyTope monoclonal therapies are designed to protect against mutagenic escape with an emphasis on efficacy for every patient, variant, and strain of SARS-CoV-2. They are created with the goal of sustainable efficacy in the face of an evolving virus, combining extensively characterized, potently neutralizing, synergistic antibodies exhibiting richly diverse epitope coverage.

About ImmunoPrecise Antibodies Ltd.

IPA is an innovation-driven, technology platform company that supports its pharmaceutical and biotechnology company partners in their quest to discover and develop novel, therapeutic antibodies against all classes of disease targets. The Company aims to transform the conventional, multi-vendor, product development model by bringing innovative and high-throughput, data-driven technologies to its partners, incorporating the advantages of diverse antibody repertoires with the Company’s therapeutic antibody discovery suite of technologies, to exploit antibodies of broad epitope coverage, multiple antibody formats, valency and size, and to discover antibodies against multiple/rare epitopes. For further information, visit www.immunoprecise.com or contact solutions@immunoprecise.com

Forward Looking Information

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Forward-looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements stated herein to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. Actual results could differ materially from those currently anticipated due to a number of factors and risks, including, without limitation, the Company may not be successful in developing its PolyTope antibody cocktail or other vaccines or therapeutics against COVID-19 through the successful and timely completion of preclinical assays, studies and clinical trials, or may not receive all regulatory approvals to commence and then continue clinical trials of its products, and may not be successful in partnering or commercializing its products related to COVID-19, the scope of coverage and applicability of the Company’s intellectual property rights to its PolyTope antibody cocktails, as well as those risks discussed in the Company’s Annual Information Form dated November 16, 2020 (which may be viewed on the Company’s profile at www.sedar.com) and the Company’s Form 40-F dated December 28, 2020 (which may be viewed on the Company’s profile at www.sec.gov). Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should assumptions underlying the forward-looking statements prove incorrect, actual results, performance, or achievements may vary materially from those expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements contained in this news release. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information contained in this news release.

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